Tim McDonnell
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Workers in Indonesia are beneficiaries of incredibly generous severance laws. But when one factory closed, it looked as if the workers wouldn't get what they expected. -
The big problem for these booming businesses isn't staff shortages, government regulations or software glitches. It's all about the electrical grid. -
To pack a healthier punch into staple foods like flour, researchers borrowed technology from the pharmaceutical industry. -
Turkey's invasion of Syria this month has displaced 80,000 children who are "really in deep distress," UNICEF's Fran Equiza tells NPR. "The price children pay is absolutely disproportionate." -
The first global analysis of blood supply and demand finds that many developing countries are relying on risky emergency donations. -
A comprehensive new report from UNICEF calls attention to the surge in obesity in developing countries — even as they're dealing with children who are undernourished.
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A front-line hospital was abandoned Friday as up to 100,000 people fled Turkey's ground and air offensive. -
The World Health Organization had hoped to eradicate the painful parasite by 2020. That deadline just got moved a decade into the future. And dogs are part of the problem.
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Gulalai Ismail spoke out against sexual assaults committed by Pakistani security forces. She was detained and threatened. Then she disappeared — until last week. -
Low- and middle-income nations are still tens of billions of dollars a year short for recovery from the increasing number of disasters, according to a new report.
